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Medical
anthropologists developed the distinction between the concepts
of disease and illness to better understand
the dynamic relationship between culture, medicine, and physician-patient
communication.
Disease refers to the malfunctioning of the physiological
and/or psychological processes in an individual.
Illness refers
to the psychosocial experience and meaning of the perceived
disease for the individual (and those associated with the
individual, i.e., family members).
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